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Update on the nanoscale journal family, 2019

04 Jul 2019

Here’s a quick update on the nanoscale journal family to let you know how we are doing and what to look out for later in 2019.

Following our first (partial) impact factor last year, we are pleased to announce that our first full impact factor is 9.095^*!

Other news from 2019:

Alongside Materials Horizons (impact factor 14.356^*), we awarded the first Horizons Outstanding Paper Prizes. These awards will be presented annually.
New Scientific Editors: Yves Dufrêne, Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, and Zhiyong Tang
Post-publication online article collections:
- Most popular articles published so far in 2019
- Horizons Community Board collection: Nanobiomedicine
- Horizons Community Board collection: Emerging 2D materials for energy and electronics applications

We are celebrating our 10^th Anniversary this year!

Look out for our celebrations at ChinaNANO 2019. In the meantime, why not have a read of these collections highlighting the most highly cited articles published in Nanoscale since we launched in 2009, as well as recent articles by some of our most prolific authors.

Other news from 2019:

Our latest impact factor is 6.970^*.
Chunying Chen, Dong Ha Kim, and Umesh Waghmare were appointed as Associate Editors.
We’ve been publishing guest edited online themed collections:
- Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals, guest edited by Lakshminarayana Polavarapu, Qiao Zhang, and Roman Krahne.
- Nanocarbons, guest edited by Nianjun Yang, Dai-Wen Pang, and Yasuaki Einaga.
- Still to come…10^th Anniversary Special Issue in October 2019, guest edited by Chunli Bai, Markus Niederberger, Francesco Stellacci, and Dirk Guldi.

We’ve published our first issues and we are delighted to see such a great response from the community. Thank you for supporting the Royal Society of Chemistry’s first journal to be Gold Open Access from launch!

Other news from 2019:

We’ve collated the Most Popular Articles published in the journal so far in an online article collection.
The journal has been accepted into the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and has also been accepted for inclusion in Scopus and the Emerging Sources Index in Web of Science, Clarivate Analytics.

Come and meet us

Members of the Editorial Team will be attending the following conferences in the coming months. Get in touch if you want to arrange a meeting, or just come over and say hello! You can also keep up to date on where the Editorial Team and our Associate Editors will be by following us on Twitter.

RSC Chemical Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Group Annual Meeting, 22 July 2019, University of East Anglia, UK.
14^th International conference on materials chemistry (MC14), 8 – 11 July 2019, Birmingham, UK.
We will be hosting the RSC Nanoscale Journals Symposium at ChinaNANO, 17 – 19 August 2019, NCNST, China
5^th International Conference on Perovskite Solar Cells and Optoelectronics (PSCO 2019), 30 September – 2 October 2019, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Get in touch if you have any feedback on the nanoscale journal family: we would love to hear from you so email us at nanoscale-rsc@rsc.org.

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Congratulations to the winners at the 10th International Nanomed Conference

01 Jul 2019

#oznanomed the 10^th International Nanomedicine Conference took place from 24 – 26 June 2019 in Sydney, Australia.

Congratulations to all the student prize winners!

Congratulations to Zerong Ma from the Children’s Cancer Institute, Australia, who was awarded an oral presentation prize sponsored by Journal of Materials Chemistry B.

Congratulations to Yi Ju from the University of Melbourne, Australia, who was awarded an oral presentation prize sponsored by Nanoscale Advances.

Congratulations to Pramod Jagtap from the Indian Institute of Technology, India, who was awarded an oral presentation prize sponsored by Nanoscale Horizons.

Zerong Ma, Children’s Cancer Institute, Australia, received her award from Professor Chunying Chen, NCNST and Nanoscale Advances Associate Editor.

Yi Ju, University of Melbourne, Australia, receives his award from Professor Chunying Chen, NCNST and Nanoscale Advances Associate Editor.

Pramod Jagtap, Indian Institute of Technology, India, recieves his award from Professor Cyrille Boyer, Co-director of the Australian Centre for Nanoscience.

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Congratulations to the Poster Prize winners at ISPM 2019!

11 Jun 2019

From 26 – 29 May 2019 the International Scanning Probe Microscopy Conference was held in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium and the nanoscale journal family was delighted to sponsor student poster prizes at the event – congratulations to the winners!

Dr Andreas Karner (Univ. of Applied Sciences, Linz) won the Nanoscale Horizons prize

Emilie Gachon (King’s College, London) won the Nanoscale prize

Dr Melanie Köhler (UClouvain, Belgium) won the Nanoscale Advances prize

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Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances Collections

16 May 2019

Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances publish high quality research across nanoscience and nanotechnology. To help you find the research that’s important to you, we’ve brought together all of our most recent and ongoing online article collections. We hope you enjoy reading them!

Ongoing Collections

Nanoscale

Nanoscale Advances

Themed Collections

Other Collections

Check out the online article collections for our sister journal Nanoscale Horizons on this blog page.

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Nano Korea 2019

10 Apr 2019

Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances are delighted to support the Nano Korea 2019 symposium which takes place from 2-5 July 2019!

Meet the Editor: Professor Dong Ha Kim, Associate Editor of Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances, will be attending Nano Korea 2019.

At Korea’s largest nanoscience and nanotechnology conference, internationally known experts, including industry leaders, will join the four day conference to discuss the most critical technological advances and innovations in the field. The first day of the meeting offers a variety of tutorial sessions followed by talks and poster presentations throughout the rest of the meeting.

Topics

The conference programme incorporates symposia covering a broad range of subjects in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, which creates an excellent platform to academia and industry delegates to build up national and international collaborative networks, exchange experiences and benefit from peer support.

The conference topics will include:

Nanoelectronic devices
1D & 2D Nanomaterials
Hybrid Nano Structural Materials
Nanobiotechnology
Nanotechnology for Energy & Environment
Computational Nano Science & Technology for Nanomaterials

… and many others. Find an overview here.

Key Dates

Pre-Registration due 31^st May 2019

Full Paper Submission due 19^th July 2019

More information available on the conference website: http://sympo.nanokorea.or.kr/2019/eng/main/

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Nanoscale Advances Most Popular Articles so far…

09 Apr 2019

We wanted to share with you some of the most popular articles published in Nanoscale Advances since the journal was launched last year. These articles are the most highly cited, most read, or most highly shared online to date.

Our community have published some fantastic research in Nanoscale Advances since launch in 2018 and we wanted to make it even easier for you to find the best articles.

Nanoscale Advances most popular articles, 2018

Here are just a few picks from the collection. We hope you enjoy them.

Reviews

Biomolecule-derived quantum dots for sustainable optoelectronics

Satyapriya Bhandari, Dibyendu Mondal, S. K. Nataraj and R. Geetha Balakrishna

Nanoscale Adv., 2019, 1, 913-936

Communications

Detection of microRNA biomarkers via inhibition of DNA-mediated liposome fusion

Coline Jumeaux, Eunjung Kim, Philip D. Howes, Hyemin Kim, Rona Chandrawati and Molly M. Stevens

Nanoscale Adv., 2019, 1, 532-536

Are octahedral clusters missing on the carbon energy landscape?

Tomas Lazauskas, Alexey A. Sokol and Scott M. Woodley

Nanoscale Adv., 2019, 1, 89-93

Papers

Chemically reactive protein nanoparticles for synthesis of a durable and deformable superhydrophobic material

Arpita Shome, Adil Majeed Rather and Uttam Manna

Nanoscale Adv., 2019, Advance Article

Synthesis and characterization of silver nanoparticle-loaded amorphous calcium phosphate microspheres for dental applications

Mayuresh Keskar, Camila Sabatini, Chong Cheng and Mark T. Swihart

Nanoscale Adv., 2019, 1, 627-635

Tetradic phosphor white light with variable CCT and superlative CRI through organolead halide perovskite nanocrystals

Gopi C. Adhikari, Preston A. Vargas, Hongyang Zhu, Alexei Grigoriev and Peifen Zhu

Nanoscale Adv., 2019, Advance Article

Rh-doped MoSe₂ as a toxic gas scavenger: a first-principles study

Hao Cui, Guozhi Zhang, Xiaoxing Zhang and Ju Tang

Nanoscale Adv., 2019, 1, 772-780

For the full collection, please see the journal website here.

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Welcome Chunying Chen, Dong Ha Kim, and Umesh Waghmare – new Associate Editors

09 Apr 2019

We are delighted to welcome three new Associate Editors, working across Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances: Chunying Chen from NCNST, China, Dong Ha Kim from Ewha Women’s University, South Korea, and Umesh Waghmare from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India.

Professor Chunying Chen

Professor Chunying Chen, NCNST, China

NCNST, China

Prof. Chen received her Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry (1991) and obtained her PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering from Huazhong University of Science and Technology of China in 1996. She joined the CAS Key Laboratory for Biomedical Effects of Nanomaterials & Nanosafety. She has been awarded the Second Prize of the National Natural Science Award in 2018, Outstanding Female Awards of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017, Chinese Young Female Scientists Award in 2014 and supported by the National Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars of China. Her research focuses on the potential toxicity of nanoparticles, transformation and fate of nanomaterials in biological systems, therapies for malignant tumors using theranostic nanomedicine systems, with an emphasis on understanding the underlying mechanism of bio-nano interactions.

Professor Dong Ha Kim

Professor Dong Ha Kim, Ewha Womans University, South Korea

Ewha Womans University, South Korea

Prof. Dong Ha Kim received Ph.D. degree in the Department of Fiber and Polymer Science at Seoul National University in 2000. He carried out postdoctoral research activities in the Polymer Science and Engineering Department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (from 2000 to 2003) with Prof. Thomas P. Russell and in the Materials Science Department at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (from 2003 to 2005) with Prof. Wolfgang Knoll. Then, he joined the Samsung Electronics Co. in the Memory Division of Semiconductor R & D Center as a senior scientist. He assumed a faculty position in the Department of Chemistry and Nano Science at Ewha Womans University in 2006, and currently is a Full Professor and Ewha Fellow. His research interests include development of hybrid nanostructures for energy storage and conversion, environmental remediation, non-volatile memory devices, display devices, and biomedical diagnosis/therapy.

Professor Umesh Waghmare

Professor Umesh Waghmare, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India

Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India

Prof. Umesh Waghmare received a BTech (with institute silver medal) in Engineering Physics from the IIT, Bombay (1990) and a PhD in Applied Physics from Yale University (1996). He worked as a post-doctoral research associate in physics department at Harvard University before joining Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in 2000, where he is presently a Professor in the Theoretical Sciences Unit and the Dean of Academic Affairs. His work has resulted in over 280 publications. He is a recipient of various awards as well as a GE unrestricted-grant for research (2011). He received the India Citation Award-2012 from the Thomson Reuters Research Excellence, and a JC Bose National Fellowship in 2012. He is a Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Sciences, Allahabad and the Indian National Science Academy, and presently a Secretary of the Indian Academy of Sciences. His research interests include ab initio modeling and simulations of multifunctional materials, mechanical behavior, nanostructures, topological insulators and materials for energy and environment.

Congratulations to prize winners at Bioinspired Nanomaterials 2019!

26 Mar 2019

The Nanoscale journal family was delighted to sponsor prizes at the recent Bioinspired Nanomaterials 2019 ECR meeting, at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland.

Organised by Dr King Hang Aaron Lau, University of Strathclyde, Professor Carsten Mim, KTH Stockholm, and Professor Basit Yameen, Lahore University of Management Sciences, this meeting brought together researchers in biological structure characterization as well as bioinspired soft matter and bionanotechnology.

Congratulations to the prize winners:

Poster presentation prizes

1. Corrigan Hicks, University of Bristol

2. (joint) Mohammad Al Qaraghuli, University of Stratchlyde

2. (joint) Tales Rocha DeMoura, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Oral presentation prizes

1. Kevin Baumann, University of Cambridge

2. Colette Whitfield, Newcastle University

More photos and information are available on the event website: https://bio-nanomaterials-glasgow-2019.org.uk/

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IEEE NANO 2019

19 Feb 2019

The 19^th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO 2019) will be held from 22-26, July 2019, in the Parisian Macao, Macau, China.

IEEE-NANO is the flagship IEEE conference on nanotechnology, which has been a successful annual conference since 2001. Recent conferences were held in Cork (2018), Pittsburgh (2017), Sendai (2016), Rome (2015), and Toronto (2014). This is only the 3rd time that the conference will be held in Greater China since its inception almost two decades ago (i.e., Hong Kong in 2007 and Beijing in 2013).

Topics

The conference scope spans both nanoscience and nanotechnology, including:

Developing new nanomaterials or manipulating matter at nanometre length scale
Studying the fundamental physical, chemical or biological properties of these nanomaterials and nanostructures
Manipulating and optimizing nanomaterials and nanostructures to create new nanosensors, nanoactuators andnanoelectronic/nanophotonic devices.

Listed below are some of the more specific topics that IEEE-NANO 2019 will focus on:

Micro/Nano Electro-Mechanical Systems (M/NEMS)
Micro/Nano/Molecular Fabrication
Nanomaterials
Nanomaterial Based Devices and Systems
Nanophotonics and Nanoscale Imaging
Nanoscale Robotics, Assembly, and Automation
Molecular Sensors, Actuators, and Systems
Micro/Nano Fluidics
Micro/Nano Mechanics
Nanobiology/Nanomedicine

Deadlines

Oral Abstract Submission 15 February 2019

Poster Abstract Submission 15 May 2019

Early Bird Registration 15 June 2019

More information available on the conference website: https://2019.ieeenano.org/

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POEM 2019 and SPb-POEM 2019: Photonic and OptoElectronic Materials Conferences

19 Feb 2019

Novel Photonic and Optoelectronic Materials for Real World Applications…

Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances are delighted to support the 2nd Photonic and Optoelectronic Materials (POEM) Conference and the first Saint-Petersburg Academic University POEM conference!

Meet the Editor: Professor Andrea Ferrari, Associate Editor, will be speaking at POEM 2019.

Internationally known experts, including industry leaders, will join these four day conferences to discuss the most critical technological advances and innovations in the field of novel photonic and optoelectronic materials and systems for a wide range of applications in communications, computations, energy harvesting, bio-chemical sensing and artificial intelligence.

Topics

The conference programme incorporates symposia covering a broad range of subjects in Photonic and Optoelectronic Materials (from 2D, chalcogenide and group IV materials, to organic and quantum dot nanomaterials, to liquid crystals and fluid nanocomposites), which creates an excellent platform to academia and industry delegates to build up national and international collaborative networks, exchange experiences and benefit from peer support.

The conference topics will include:

2D materials
IV element-based photonic materials and devices
Chalcogenide materials
Quantum Dots and Nanowires
Organic materials
Liquid Crystals and Fluid Nanocomposites

The conference programme will incorporate the following symposia:

2D Material Symposium
Liquid Crystal Symposium
THz Optoelectronics and Photonics Symposium
Nanophotonics Symposium
Energy Materials Symposium
Metamaterials and Plasmonic Devices Symposium
Smart Biosensors and Bioanalytical Systems Symposium
Microscopy and Microspectroscopy of Nanomaterials Symposium

Key Dates

Abstract Submission 1^st March 2019

Registration 25^th March 2019

More information available on the conference websites: https://www.poem2019.com/and https://www.spb-poem.com/

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Archive for the ‘Nanoscale Advances’ Category

Here’s a quick update on the nanoscale journal family to let you know how we are doing and what to look out for later in 2019.

Other news from 2019:

Other news from 2019:

Other news from 2019:

Come and meet us

Ongoing Collections

Nanoscale

Nanoscale Advances

Themed Collections

Other Collections

Topics

Key Dates

We wanted to share with you some of the most popular articles published in Nanoscale Advances since the journal was launched last year. These articles are the most highly cited, most read, or most highly shared online to date.

Reviews

Communications

Papers

We are delighted to welcome three new Associate Editors, working across Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances: Chunying Chen from NCNST, China, Dong Ha Kim from Ewha Women’s University, South Korea, and Umesh Waghmare from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India.

Professor Chunying Chen

Professor Dong Ha Kim

Professor Umesh Waghmare

Topics

Deadlines

Novel Photonic and Optoelectronic Materials for Real World Applications…

Topics

Key Dates

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